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Ben
Ben

Reputation: 3440

Is it possible to free local allocated memory with VirtualFreeEx?

Say process 1 has allocated some space with VirtualAlloc in a function and the function already returned at that time. Is it possible that a second process frees the space with VirtualFreeEx if it knows the right address(es)?

Upvotes: 0

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David Heffernan
David Heffernan

Reputation: 612963

The answer to this question is yes.

Memory is owned by the process in which it resides. It is not owned by the process which allocated it.

In many ways, this is similar to calling malloc from one thread and then free from another. That's perfectly fine. And it's perfectly fine to do the equivalent with VirtualAllocEx and VirtualFreeEx.

Upvotes: 6

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